Combination brush and scraper



Nov. 2 1926.

A. VINJE COMBINATION BRUSH AND SCRABER Filed Sept. 9, 1925 INYENTOR A. Vin e ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 2, 1926.

ALFRED VINJ'E. OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINATION BRUSH AND SGBAPER.

Application filed September 9, 1925. Serial No. 55,229.

The main object of this invention is to provide a combination tool having a brush at one end and a scraper at the opposite end. which may be used for the purpose of cleaning pots, pans, and the like; It sometimes happens that, dishes, when being prepared or cooked, settle on the bottom of the container and a scorching ensues. To clean this scorched area, a rigid tool is necessary. For that reason, the device is constructed with a brush at one end which removes any particles loosely adhering to the container and when the same becomes scorched, the opposite end of the tool is used as a scraper to clean said scorched area.

T he above and other objects will become apparent in the description below, in which characters of reference refer to like-named parts in the drawing.

Referring briefly to the drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the tool.

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is asectional elevational view of one end of the cleaning tool, showing the means for reversing the scraper.

Figure 4 is a perspective View of the stud used for locking the scraper in position.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral 10 indicates the body of the tool which may be wood or other suitable material. One end of this body has a metallic band 11 encircling it which serves as a retainer for a plurality of wire bristles 12, said bristles being set in hard rubber or the like at their base. The body 10 has a handle 13 extending from the end opposite to the bristles and is bulged at 14 intermediate its length to fit comfortably into the clenched hand. The extreme lower end of the handle tapers gradually to a point and from a position intermediate the length of the handle to its lower end, a longitudinal slot 15 passes lengthwise thru the same and serves as a space for receiving a scraper blade 16, which is pivoted on a stud 17, the latter being anchored in the handle 13. This blade 16 has oppositely disposed curved cutting edges 18 and 19. One of these cutting edges is at all times exposed from the lower end of the handle 13 while the opposing edge is securely housed in the slot 15 which serves as a guard so that no injury results when the user grips the handle. The cutting blade is made reversible so that one edge may be used after the first edge when the latter has been dulled thru use. This reversible blade, as n-eviously stated, is mounted on a pivot stud 1'7 and is rotatable thereon. Using the axis of the stud 17 as a pivot, a pair of curved slits 20 and 21 are formed in the blade and pass from one edge 22 of said blade to a point along its longitudinal center, at which position a circular recess 23 is formed; An opening is provided in the handle member 13 on both sides of the slot 15 and aligned with the upper recess 23 of the slit 20. In this opening, spindle 24 is mounted which has ahead 25- at one end embedded in a counter-sunk por-' tion of the handle 13, and a higher head 26 at theopposite end, the lower head projecting somewhat above the surfaceof the handle so that the same may be readily manipulated. Intermediate the length of the spindle at a position where the latter crosses the recess 15, the spindle is deformed into a rectangular wedge. whose thickness is slightly less than the width of'the slits-20 and 21 and whose width is slightly less than the recesses 23 at the heads of the slits 20 and 21.

The tool is used for cleaning of containers a relatively short such as pots or pans which havea settling thereon. hen the settling of food stuffs in the container is relatively light and does not cling tenaciously, the bristles 12 of the device are used for removing the adhering particles from the surface or interior of the pot or pan. YVhen the receptacle, however, has been exposed to scorching, the bristles would not remove the settlement from the interior of the same and one of the edges 18 or 19 of the scraper blade must be necessarily used. The tool is then reversed so that the scraper edge 19 or 18 comes in contact with the surface of the scorched area of the receptacle and can thereby be effectively cleaned in the well known manner. To make the tool more efiicient, a blade is provided which ma be reversed when one of the edges has con dulled or impaired. Either of these cutting edges 18 or 19 may be locked in their exposed positions by a rotational movement of the spindle 24. When it is desired to reverse the edge of the blade so that the edge 18, normally concealed within the recess 15 of the handle is reversed to the lowermost position, the head 26 of the spindle 24 is partly rotated so that the width of the wedge member 27 formed intermediate the length of the spindle 24 aligns with the curved slit 20. When the spindle is in this position, the lower end of the blade 16 is rotated about the stud 17 until the normally lower end of the blade 16 is rotated to a position 180 degrees from its original position to where the wedge portion 27 of the spindle 24 ridges into the slit 21 to the recess at the head thereof. The head 26 of the spindle 24: is then rotated 90 degrees so that the width of the wedge member lies at right angles to the slit 21 in its recess 23.

I claim 1. In a brush having a handle thereon,

' a pivoted reversible blade at the lower end of said handle, saidhandle having a recess therein, the blade being pivotally mounted in said recess and having its lower endv projecting from the handle end, a spindle rotatably mounted in the handle, and means on said blade engageable with the spindle for locking said blade in opposing positions in the handle.

2. In a brush having a handle thereon, a pivoted reversible blade at the lower end of said handle, said handle having a recess therein, the blade being pivotally mounted in said recess and having its lower end projecting from the handle end, a spindle rotatably mounted in the handle, said blade having edges at its opposing ends, a stud mounted in said handle and supporting the blade, a pair of curved slits generated about the stud as an axis, said slits being formed in said blade at opposite ends thereof.

3. In a brush having a handle thereon, a pivoted reversible blade at the lower end of said handle, said handle having a recess therein, the blade being pivotally mounted in said recess and having its lower end projecting from the handle end, a spindle rotatably mounted in the handle, said blade having edges at its opposing ends, a stud mounted in said handle and supporting the blade, a pair of curved slits generated about the stud as an axis, said slits being formed in said blade near both ends, the slits passing from one edge to the longitudinal center of the blade, and annular recesses at the heads of the slits adapted to receive the spindle, and means on said spindle engaging said recesses for locking or releasing the blades to permit rotation thereof.

4. In a brush having a handle thereon, a pivoted reversible blade at the lower end ofsaid handle, said handle having a recess therein, the blade being pivotally mounted in said recess and having its lower end projecting from the handle end, a spindle rotatably mounted in the handle, said blade having edges at its opposing ends, a stud mounted in said handle and supporting the blade, a pair of curved slits genera-ted about the stud as an axis, the slits passing from one edge to the longitudinal center of the blade, and annular recesses at the heads of the slits adapted to receive the spindle, said spindle having a wedge whose thickness is smaller than the width of the slits and whose width is smaller than the diameter of the recesses, said wedge being engageable with the recesses and slits of the blade for locking and releasing said blade. 7

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ALFRED VINJE. 

